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Human-centered AI Design: Balancing Innovation with User Needs

July 24, 2024

It’s exciting to look at the possibility of incorporating AI into a product, but remember that the mere existence of AI will not automatically make everything better…

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Tips for Designing FinTech Products

June 19, 2024

Here’s what we’ve learned so far about designing products for the FinTech world, including common challenges and our tips to overcome them.

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UX Training Benefits for Your Product Team

June 12, 2024

To achieve truly great UX and see the ROI, you need to get many people on board with the UX mindset. This includes those closest to the product like developers, product managers...

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Do you need a UX audit?

May 29, 2024

Design debt and technical debt often go hand in hand, which can really throw a wrench into your team's speed. Even if you are rolling out new features quickly, you might find yourself in a tangled mess of inconsistencies, where different screens require a whole new mental model or interaction style.

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Anatomy of an Enterprise-Grade Design System

May 15, 2024

In this article, we’ll go over the different artifacts of an enterprise-grade design system you may want for your organization. We’ll also review real scenarios that will best leverage a design system and how these artifacts can play a role in building your product.

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Benefits of a Design System

April 30, 2024

In this article we’ll review pain points you might see when working without a design system, the ways a design system can help deliver products customers enjoy using, and some things to consider when starting a design system for your team.

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Standardizing Design Through DesignOps

April 24, 2024

In our work at P&P, we need to adapt to different external teams and work within a wide variety of contexts and design maturity stages. This means we’ve got to have a robust system for selling and providing UX value, no matter the situation.

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Generative AI Examples 2024

April 10, 2024

While we often associate "generative" to "creative" and the multimedia, music and art domains, generative AI is part of the much broader field of machine learning and actually encompasses a variety of less artistic use cases.

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Using Flow Diagrams in Enterprise Software Design

April 4, 2024

As a knowledge worker navigating complex and creative environments, you need a range of ways to communicate your ideas and collaborate effectively with your team.

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Product Manager & UX Designer Collaboration Guide

March 13, 2024

Here at P&P, we talk a lot about our obsession with collaboration: how we work...

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Signs of Bad UX Design

February 6, 2024

There are more ways to make UX design weird than there are ways to make...

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UX Design Best Practices

January 10, 2024

While you might be new to this wide world of UX design, you’re likely not...

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How to Improve UX Culture within Your Organization

January 4, 2024

Fostering a positive and supportive company culture is a hot topic lately. Time and time...

Enterprise Software

The Future of Enterprise UX

December 22, 2023

Enterprise software runs the world. Take a moment to consider, nearly every aspect of your...

UX Pattern Analysis

Search UX Best Practices

October 17, 2023

A new era of search is upon us! Let us designers and product folk move...

Foundational UX

ROI of UX Design: Creating The Business Case For Design Investment

September 21, 2023

An investment in user experience represents a level-up from good-enough-to-release standards which has lasting effects...

Foundational UX

UX Design Documentation Guide

August 1, 2023

As a UX designer, you’ve probably done plenty of specs and redlining, but you might...

UX Pattern Analysis

Dashboard Design UX Patterns

July 11, 2023

Dashboards are the mother of all screens. In data-heavy industries, it’s easy for software to...

General

Learning UX with Real Products & Beta Communities: Tips for Success

May 30, 2023

We talk a lot about how to grow as a UX designer, develop your skills...

UX Heuristics Series

Consistency and Standards

May 16, 2023

Users should not have to wonder whether different words, situations, or actions mean the same...

Foundational UX

What is UX Anyways?

May 6, 2023

The term User Experience (and its abbreviation “UX”) is a relatively new...

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Filter UX Design Patterns

April 17, 2023

Is it just us, or do all resources about filtering UX revolve...

Enterprise Software

Enterprise UX Workflow

April 3, 2023

Here’s a quiz: what’s the kind of UX that’s not web, mobile apps or things...

General

Product Market Fit and User Experience

March 28, 2023

So you have a shower thought. Instead of the usual pizza vs pasta debate, you’ve...

UX Pattern Analysis

Breadcrumbs UX Navigation – The Ultimate Design Guide

March 20, 2023

Breadcrumbs in the UI sense are fascinating. On first inspection, breadcrumbs seem easy peasy, but...

Enterprise Software

Building an Enterprise UX Portfolio: Tips and Strategies for Success

March 9, 2023

Building a design portfolio is probably one of the most critical yet most time-consuming and,...

UX Heuristics Series

User Control and Freedom

February 22, 2023

The user should have the ability to always undo actions, change their mind about decisions...

UX Pattern Analysis

Data Table Design UX Patterns

February 7, 2023

Tables tend to have a somewhat (undeserved) bad reputation...

UX Heuristics Series

Match Between System and Real World

January 17, 2023

The design should speak the users’ language. Use words, phrases, and concepts familiar to the...

UX Heuristics Series

Visibility of System Status

December 13, 2022

When you talk to someone in real life, a multitude of cues inform...

Collaboration

Technical Knowledge and Concepts for Designers

December 7, 2022

Remember when we shared that “we embrace and are obsessed” with collaboration back in our...

UX Pattern Analysis

Navigation UX Best Practices For SaaS Products

December 3, 2022

In UX, ‘navigation’ includes all functionalities and visual cues that people use to orient themselves

UX Pattern Analysis

Drag and Drop UX Best Practices

October 25, 2022

This, my friends, is one of THE most involved and spiciest interaction challenges in the...

Foundational UX

Visual Hierarchy in UI

October 4, 2022

User interfaces, by and large are focused on the experience users perceive with their eyes...

UX Heuristics Series

Introduction to 10 UX Heuristics

September 26, 2022

These 10 usability heuristics are well-established in the design industry and form the basis of ...

UX Pattern Analysis

5 Flexible Enterprise UX Patterns

September 20, 2022

Call it whatever you want, enterprise software AKA complex software AKA SAAS products, whichever is...

UX Pattern Analysis

Success UX

September 12, 2022

In the absence of positive success feedback people are at risk to assume the worst...

UX Pattern Analysis

Empty states

September 6, 2022

Is this product broken? Or have you just forgotten to put in an informative empty...

Foundational UX

Design Rationale Documentation

August 22, 2022

Consciously or unconsciously, you’re being influenced right this second. Taking in information and processing it...

UX Pattern Analysis

UX Interaction Patterns Design Guide

July 24, 2022

Our job as designers, developers, QAs and product people is to make sure that the experiences...

UX Pattern Analysis

Mobile Filter UX Design Patterns and Best Practices

July 15, 2022

While doing some research for this piece, I was barely...

Foundational UX

A Guide to Leveraging Power Users in Product Development

June 22, 2022

Our team relies heavily on user research to validate workflows and iterate on features. During...

Foundational UX

Patterns & UX interactions we’d love to try

June 6, 2022

They say there’s nothing new under the sun, which is a bit of a downer...

UX Pattern Analysis

Loading Feedback

May 24, 2022

On the Internet, loading is inevitable. There are so many factors at play that you...

General

The Floppy Disc Must Die

May 23, 2022

We’re striding ahead at breakneck speed in all aspects of life these days. Maybe every...

UX Pattern Analysis

Error Message Handling & Feedback

May 10, 2022

Make no mistake, errors matter. What’s the most famous bad UX out there? An inscrutable...

General

Collaborating on Tech Teams to Improve UX

April 28, 2022

Here in the P&P universe, we feel it’s important to be just as creative about...

General

Perch Product Revamp

April 4, 2022

A sub-optimal user experience was hindering this startup from scaling. They needed to find ways not just to improve the flow that was...

General

5 Books that changed the way you design

March 9, 2022

American author Fran Lebowitz once said: “Think before you speak, read before you think.” Around...

Collaboration

Should devs learn UX skills?

October 21, 2021

When we sat down with Amara Graham, Head of Developer Experience at Camunda, for a...

Collaboration

What’s the job of a ‘design engineer’?

October 15, 2021

In our latest fireside chat with Miriam Suzanne, founder of Oddbird, we talk about the...

Collaboration

Building design confidence as a developer

October 1, 2021

“Pixel perfect doesn’t mean it’s ‘done’. Things will feel different to use, look different in...

Employee UX

The Case of the Tanking Team

July 30, 2020

This article is part of a series that highlights some of the common challenges...

Employee UX

The Case of the Quitting Client

July 28, 2020

This article is part of a series that highlights some of the common challenges...

Enterprise Software

Signs it’s time to do a UX redesign of your enterprise software

July 20, 2020

We all know that building enterprise software is hard – building excellent user experience...

Employee UX

The Case of the Rising Tensions

July 7, 2020

Acme Co is a company much like any other. Its business revolves around software—...

Employee UX

The Case of the Absent Associates

June 18, 2020

Acme Co is a company much like any other. Its business revolves around software— ...

Employee UX

The Case of the Vanishing Project

June 17, 2020

Acme Co is a company much like any other. Its business revolves around software—

User Experience

Scaling User Experience

June 14, 2020

The agency model for design, may or may not be ‘broken’, but...

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